The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-12-22

mitted to the committee plans for tn
formation of national and stat
leagues, and that they had been adopt
| ed with few changes. A draft for
constitution for national organization
to be known as the Republican Leagu
A president, three vice-presidents ant
q secretary and treasurer are to be tn
officers. A draft Of constitution 70
state leagues was also presented. Thu
latter are to hold annual conventions
but are not to express any preference
| for any candidate before any politica
convention. Any club having twenty
members and duly organized is entitled
to membership in the state league. a
convention Of the league during the
/ year 1888 Is also provided for.
The COMMITTEES on permanent organi
zation reported in favor of William NJ
EvartS, of New York, fol president
and yice-president from each state
u. A. Osborn representing Kansas)
The report was adopted.
A recess was then taken until o.
m. It was after O'Clock, however
when the convention was again called
to order. New York was the last to
arrive. They had spent the re.
halls at the Grand Opera House
caucussing for candidates to present
to the convention as officers of the pro
posed national league. They had pre-
pared the following list: President.
Channcey NJ. DepeW, New York; vice.
president, James e. Blanchard, for
New York; executive committeeman
for New York, Edgar T. Bracket. A
count made during recess showed that
there were 1 1853 delegates present, and
$50 clubs represented. In addition to
these $50 credentials of seventy-five
clubs have been presented to the COM
for their credentials.
In response to calls Gen. Nathan
Golf, Of West Virginia, made ringing
speech, after which the report of the
committee on resolutions was read by
Hon. John A. Kasson, of Iowa.
The resolutions recount the achieve
ments of the republican party since its
organization, dwelling at length
on the work which has resulted
country on a sound basis.
Passing on to later years the resolu-
lions refer to the civil service reform
policy initiated by the republican party,
while it held the supremacy, and de-
mand its enforcement and its contin-
ued development. After referring to
the ''triplets of MISUNDERSTANDING
Ignorance and intemperance- as evils
now confronting the party, the resolu-
lions proceed to criticise the Presi-
dents message in the following Ian
guage:
While these delegates were prepar-
ing to assemble in council for their pa
triotic work as dutiful citizens, they,
were astounded by message
from the democratic chief-magistrate
of the United States, which abandoned
all the presidents of his predecessors.
The constitution requires him to give
congress information of the state of the
union. Every President from Wash
ington to Arthur has annually per-
formed this duty with dignity. This
President has descended so far from
their practice as to allow himself to
convert this constitutional duty into q
partisan speech for the complete over
throw of policy recommend
ed by the founders of the government,
and especially endorsed by his earliest
predecessors in Office. We therefore
call the attention to our countrymen to
the facts of their own recent history,
under the influence of policy of pro-
lection. The principle of protective
tariff was adopted in 1851, during the
war of the rebellion. For four years
after its adoption the war continued,
paralyZing business and industries, and
rendering large portion of the coun-
try overrun by the contending armies
almost waste, and yet such has been
the benefcent influence and effect of
the protective system upon the
not another example to be found in
the world, or in the records of the past,
where a nation has ever made the
progress we have made during a like
period of time. To-day in wealth
power, grandeur and civilization the
United States stands first among the
nations of the world. The United
States, while extending their power
and increasing their wealth as nation
have developed their resources, built
up their industries and given employ.
as to make the nation in most things
independent of foreign production
for the commodities and necessaries
which our people require, and at less
cost to pay for similar articles than be
fore 1850, when we had comparative
free trade, so that to-day labor is bet
ter paid and manufactured commodi
ties cheaper in price to all our people
than they were before the present pro
tective system was adopted. These
important results have been accom-
competition with its concurrent ad
vantage of an equal increase in the EN-
ployment of labor, both skilled and un
skilled. and in the recompense of La
Dor. 1t has been accompanied also
by a change in the balance o.
trade with foreign countries, enabling
US to retain at home the gold and silver
products of our mines and our earnings
instead of sending them abroad for the
enrichment of aliens. Consequently
| in proportion as our capital increased
the rates of interest were reduced tx
a degree never before known, lesseninl
the charges on farms and facilitating
| all mercantile and manufacturing
enterprises.
The resolutions concluded with {
long series of declarations in which
the republican attitude on thu
tariff is clearly defined an(
the democratic party is censnred TO
persistently refusing any reduc
ton of the taxes unless coupled
| with destructive assault on Ameri
can industries, which course has re
suited in the accumulation OF the eX
/ listing surplus and all the dangers it in
wolves.
Reference is also made to the refusa
of the democratic house to admit to tn
/ Ou1OA OO1AAOO11Oo pIOpC1Ay OA6ll1OU "
admission, to the hostility of the dem
ocratic house to all means for the ad
vancement of education, to the failur
Of the Democratic party to provide al
efficient navy and to the lack of prcpe
protection to American citizens abroad
Sections IL and II are as follows:
Section live charge the demo
cratic party with being recreant to tn
public and the pledges Of the Presiden
in prostituting the civil service to par
tisan purposes. We hold that thos
professed friends of civil service re
form who accept and follow this faith
less action in preference to the part,
which placed the civil service law OF
the statute book are themselves untru
TO their professions. We condemn an
backward step in this reform and al
hypocrisy in this administration.
Section II. We charge the Democrat
administration with trampling upo
the just claims of the soldiers of tn
republic, and with re-opening the az
cepted settlements of deplorable sex
tiOnal strife by ordering the removal @
tho ornhlouna 0f eIIch strife fronn fh